Rhodes News

Wages for government workers at the federal, state, and municipal levels earn on average 50 percent more than their civilian counterparts, according to a study released last week by the The Free Enterprise Nation institute.   The study cites specific examples in which some government workers retired in their fifties with six-figure retirement plans.

The Beacon Hill Institute, a Boston-based economic policy think tank released a study analyzing President Obama's Executive Order 13502, which excludes any non-union company from construction bids above $25 million.   The study's findings claim the executive order will be a boon for unionized companies to gain government contracts, but at the cost of finding companies that could have submitted much lower bids.